Track-alining apparatus.



No. 807,208. PATENTBD DEG. 12, 1905. F. B. SHAW n J. M. EBERLE. TRACK ALINING APPARATUS.

APPLICATION FILED 001213, 1905.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK B. SHAW AND JOHN M. EBERLE, OF WARSAW, INDIANA.

TRACK-ALINING. APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec.y 12, 1905.

Application led October 13, 1905. Serial No. 282,574.

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK B. SHAW and JOHN M. EBERLE, citizens of the United States, residing at Warsaw, in the county of Kosciusko and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Track-Alining Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

This invention is an improvement of our apparatus for alining railway-tracks, for which we obtained United States Patent N o. 7 82,362, dated February 14, 1905. Said apparatus has the defect that it will not be cleared by a train, and consequently has to be entirely removed from the track when a train passes thereover.

The object of the present invention is to remedy this defect by so constructing the upwardly-projecting-pats that they may be removed, so that the train will clear the remaining parts.

The present invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a side View, Fig. 2 is atop view, and Fig. 3 is a cross-section on the line 3 3 of Figs. 1 and 2. Fig. 4 is a similar cross-section of a modification.

In the present device the bed -plate 8 is strengthened by flanges 8, standing at the side edges thereof, which flanges have guides 8" for the anchor-blade 10. Said blade slides up and down in said guides, being operated by the screw 11, which bears at its lower end against a block 11, which has a socket 11b, in which the lower end of the screw rests. l The screw at its lower end has a groove 11e, which receive a set-screw 11d, whereby the blade may be lifted by the screw when desired. The top of the blade fits. in a slot `in the block 11a.

The thrust of the screw is sustained by the frame 9, which instead of being integral with the bed.- plate, as shown in the above-'mentioned patent, is made separate therefrom and lits at its sides upon the upper edges of the iianges 8, having a lug 9a on each side adapted to be engaged by hooks 8C, pivotally connected to the flanges 8a. When these hooks are caught over the lugs, the screw may be operated to drive the blade into the ground. To permit the passage of a train, the hooks are disengaged and also the thumb-screw 11, which allows the screw and frame to be lifted and removed. The engine will clear the rest of the parts. In addition to the parts above described the construction is similar to that heretofore 'shown in our existing patent, the screw 14 having a head 14, which engages the base of one rail, and a ratchet-handle 15, whereby it may be operated to turn the screw and shift the track laterally to the desired extent. On the other side the device has a rod 16, which may be driven out under the other rail or retracted for disengagement. The movement may be effected by direct manipulation of the rod.

In the modified form shown in Fig. 4 the frame 9, instead of being removable' from the bed-plate, is hinged thereto by bolts 30, so that it will swing sidewise to be raised or lowered. It is held in raised position by braces 31, which have at their lower ends hooks 32 engageable in holes 33 in the anges of the bed-plate. The upper end of the blade 10 may when released from the screw 11 be swung or folded down also, being hinged to the lower part ofthe blade by hinges 10. It will be seen that by dropping the ratchethandle 15 iiatly upon the ground and by removing or turning down the frame 9 and the screw trains will clear or pass over the other parts'of the device without disturbing said parts, and consequently without removing the apparatus from the track.'

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a track-alining device, the combination with a bed-plate and means thereon to apply pressure to the track, of an anchoringblade, and an upright frame on the bed-plate and having a screw bearing on top of the blade to drive the same in the ground, said frame and screw ,being movable to horizontal position to allow a train to clear the device.

2. In a track-alining device, the combination with a bed-plate having means thereon to apply pressure to the track, and an anchoringblade adapted to be driven into the road-bed, of a frame detachably connected to the bedplate and having a screw which bears upon the blade, to drive the same.

3. In a track-alining device, the combination with a bed-plate having thereon a screw IOO engageable With one of the rails, of an anehornames to this specification in the presence of blade adapted to be driven into the ground, a two subscribing` Witnesses. frame earrylng a screw arranged to bear upon FRANK B. SHAW. the top of the blade and drlve the same, and 1 5 hooks connecting the bed-plate and frame, and JOHN M' EBLRLE' arranged to hold the latter in place on the for- Witnesses: mer. A. L. GoBLE,

1n testimony whereof We have signed our W. T. LoEHR. 

